It’s about 4 years since the CoronaDoom™ struck. It wasn’t so much the face that launched a thousand ships, but the virus that launched a thousand tits1.
It was the virus equivalent of sliced bread. A whole new chapter in virology and epidemiology. It was so devastating that even master bakers feared for their very lives. Slicing bread, it seemed, would release a zillion evil particles of DeathByCorona™ into the atmosphere, just waiting to pounce on Granny.
But it was OK - we all knew how to keep Granny safe - even from the terrifying dangers of sliced bread.
If we take the figures from OWID (Our World in Data) at face value2, then in this 4 years of PetrifyingPandemic™ we had 7 million DeathsByCorona™. If we take a conservative estimate that 50% of the world were infected at some point during those 4 years (it will be higher than this), then that translates roughly to an infection fatality rate of about 0.175%
Or, roughly 2 in 1,000 (or 1 in 500 if you like to slice it that way).
So, basically, in line with mortality rates for a bad flu.
Curiously, also according to OWID, the US had 1 million of those 7 million DeathByDoom™ events. That’s about 14%
So a country with about 4% of the world’s population suffered 14% of the CackingItWithCorona™ happenstances3.
You’ll notice I’m being a little dismissive in my descriptions. I mean no offence to those who did die of covid, or their families - it was, for some, a terrible thing. My purpose is to highlight the fear, the level of exaggeration, that was employed to convince us all we were facing a major existential crisis that would mean we would have to slice back better.
What we’re facing now, though, is a pandemic of perfidious apathy.
Covid is soooo over, they say, why are you still banging on about it?
Because, perhaps, a disease that is, statistically, no more significant than a severe flu, was elevated to the status of deadly and unprecedented and provoked a response that defied rationality and upended decades of evidence-based science in favour of a pseudo-scientific panic, that resulted in a massive leap into authoritarianism and safetyism.
The disease itself was not particularly unprecedented, but our response was.
A disease that has, allegedly, claimed the lives of 0.0875% of the world’s population in a full 4 years of ‘operation’ can hardly be described as a major existential crisis for humanity now, can it?
Those who still lust after covid, and the power it gave them, will argue that the vaccine “saved” millions from the CoughOfCalamity™. The evidence for that is, to put it mildly, somewhat thin on the ground. The work that purports to demonstrate this is all based on modelling4 and some rather dodgy clinical data - and the full data that we would need to settle the question is not being released by governments. There must be some good reason why, eh? Might it, perhaps, be because the JabOfJoy™ is really the PrickOfPerfidy™ when the data is properly examined?
How very dare you, Sir! Away with thy vexatious gibbering conspiracy confabulations!
You should trust the Experts.
You mean those “Experts” who told us that :
Asymptomatic transmission has never been a significant driver of respiratory disease (Fauci) who then went on to tell us things like 1 in 3 people could be, asymptomatically, spreading the GrannyKiller™
Masks do not work work to mitigate the impact of an airborne aerosolized virus who then went on to tell us that masks were the best thing since sliced bread
Vaccines would only be for the old and otherwise vulnerable who then went on to tell us to jab the fuck out of our 6 month old babies, despite them being at a level of risk practically indistinguishable from zero.
We shouldn’t play Scrabble at Christmas5
The vaccines prevent infection and transmission who then went on to tell us to be afraid of the unvaccinated and that nobody is safe until everybody is safe
There’s no such thing as ‘natural immunity’ and the new all-singing, all-dancing, new and improved hybrid immunity is what we all really, really need.
We need to rinse our hands with some chemical gloop until the skin starts peeling off in order to limit the spread of this airborne virus which just sits there on surfaces waiting to sneak its way onto the hands of any unsuspecting Granny
You mean those “Experts”? Yeah - we should really ‘trust’ these people shouldn’t we?
We didn’t have science, we had a scientifically illiterate spewing of dumbfuckery, a quantum leap in quackery, and a stupefying seizure and eradication of our basic rights.
And an almost total suppression of actual science and science-based reasoning.
The pandemic only really existed in our heads. There was an infectious disease doing the rounds which may, or may not, have reached the level of ‘pandemic’ depending on how pernickety you want to be with ‘definitions’ and the meanings of words, but what we really had was a pandemic of fear, wholly unrelated to reality, that lived in our minds and poisoned everything.
That mind virus is still alive and mutating - despite the PandemicOfPeril™ now being seen as in the past by most. Killing it off, like killing off any idea that is essentially religious in nature, is not going to be easy. Those who have arrived at their convictions through emotional reasoning are not likely to be easily swayed by rational arguments.
Thus, we still have those who cling to their Shamanistic Talismans of Disease Control (i.e. masks) despite there not being a single shred of evidence that they made any major difference.
Many people would claim to be in the ‘never again’ camp. I’m not going to wear a mask again, or get jabbed with Bourla’s Zombie Goo ever again, they say. But, when push comes to shove, when governments once again roll out all the coercive measures they employed during covid, how many will be able to resist when their livelihoods and the financial well-being of their families are on the line?
Will we be able to weather the storm this time round? Or will the tricks and techniques learned by governments during the PandemicOfPanic™ be more finely-honed and weaponized more effectively?
The GreatGrannyKiller™ of 2020 - 2024 may have sunk very low on the official ListOfThingsToWorryAbout™ but our break with reality has not been fixed. Governments will do the same things all over again should the World Hysteria Organization (the WHO) decide to declare some new ‘emergency’.
These are the things that did not work the first time around. More of them. Harder. Longer. More brutal. They’ll work this time. Trust us.
It’s even worse than this because they want a permanent infrastructure in place, costing billions, creating a mass global surveillance state, just in case, at some undefined point in the future, a new ScaryScourge™ emerges.
Does anybody still seriously believe this is all about ‘health’?
The UK is currently having a covid ‘inquiry’. It’s not about finding out the truth, but about propping up a ‘pandemic’ narrative that has been thoroughly discredited. It’s so very clear from the inquiry so far that this is the case.
One argument is that governments were caught on the back foot, so to speak. They were blown about by the media-induced public frenzy to be seen to be doing ‘something’. And so they did a lot of spectacularly dumb things.
OK - I suppose that could happen. If we suppose that we have a spineless shower of shites masquerading as our leaders, then this could make sense.
But very few of these folk are courageous enough to stand up and say, look, I’m really sorry. I panicked a bit and got it completely wrong. I’ll make sure it never happens again.
No, they’re practically rubbing their groins in anticipation of the pleasure of doing it all again and going along with all the ‘pandemic preparedness’ WHO nonsense. Is it really just about ‘saving face’? Are they really this craven, or this dumb, or this spineless?
Maybe.
But until we fix the break with reality, this rift in rationality that we created, we’ll never escape their sordid wet dreams - whether it’s really about a power-grab or just saving face.
This is the ongoing pandemic that we need to be vaccinated against - and that means we must keep ‘inoculating’ people with the utter failure of our covid response.
This is why covid is still important.
For those not familiar with UK vernacular, describing someone as a “complete tit” is not a compliment. It implies a level of crushing stupidity that surpasses the merely ‘idiot’.
Which we shouldn’t
We know that being supremely beautiful morbidly obese was a significant risk factor for serious covid outcomes. It’s possible that this may have played into the stats for the US.
You remember that super-duper sciency stuff that just nailed everything about the progression of the pandemic with astonishing accuracy? No, me neither.
This is still my favourite piece of advice from an “Expert” - perhaps even better than using glory holes as a way of reducing transmission during sex. This major pandemic-busting measure was recommended by one of the UK’s top ‘scientific’ advisors.
But can we really trust the U.S. numbers? I don't think so because the government paid hospitals additional money for every Medicare "covid" patient they treated, that is, the elderly, and three times as much if the patients needed a ventilator. (And mortality rates ranged from 50–97 percent in those who were treated in an ICU with mechanical ventilation, much higher than for those who did not receive ventilator treatment, all other things being equal, according to the NIH itself. Now they tell us. The overall mortality rate for those in an ICU was 25.8 percent.) There was a financial incentive to treat "covid," an incentive to put people on ventilators, and there was an incentive to label patients as "covid" sufferers even if they really had another form of illness. How could that not help but skew the numbers?
They are such lovely little birds, you know. The tits, that is. Brave and courageus given their size and weight, they zig-zag between the snowflakes and dare to snatch food from the bird-feeder under the beaks of the jays and the paws of the squirrels - even braving the snow-weasel to pick up the stuff fallen on the ground.
Great tits, blue tits, any kind of tits. Amazing birds, and they've been around since Gondwanaland was a thing, so they sure know survival of the fittest in their genes.
The parallel to the Covid-response is this:
Tits (tättingar in swedish) come many and with variety adapted to and by local conditions. Autonomously evolved "from the ground up" so to speak.
The Covid-response was consciously planned and implemented in a top-down, one-size-fits-none-fashion.
Therefore, the tits gracefully flits through the air in -30 Celsius air;
while Covid-experts fail at everything and wring their hand in despair.